Some of you may have noticed that I have had a hard time blogging the last few months. Part of the difficulty for me has been the feeling of being an outsider, in my own country and in the world.Oddly, not writing so much poetry has led me to do more visual art work (a real bit of grace.) Here, the feeling of being an outsider has been very freeing since (with no real training), I have very few expectations about my visual art.
There is actually a long tradition of outsider art in the visual arts, that is, of unschooled artists making of a body of work; Grandma Moses was a famous outsider artist; Simon Rodia of Watts Tower fame another.
So, the prompt today is based on the idea of the outsider. You can approach this from any direction you wish–an outsider as refugee or exile; an outsider at a party or at school or from a clique.
You could also use the prompt to try to write as an outsider–like someone unfamiliar with the established tools of writing (an “outsider literary artist”.) Or you could write about simply being outside, that is, in nature.
Finally, you could use this as an ekphrastic challenge and just write about a picture made by an outsider artist.
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H=*
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napowrimo 26/30(1)
This is such a funny idea! But I think you should give a full translation and not just the code. It will help your readers! Thanks. K.
That would defeat the object of the exercise. 😉
Ha!
I’ve often thought that myself. (K)
😀 that’s nice 😀
&%!!
I seaa 😉
Ya spins the wheel and takes yer chance
Land on a vowel get a free roll
“Q’s” makes a free pass and pass go
Throw the dice and if it’s trouble
Wait for tomorrow, answer’s there
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\!$% \% ;.>_ Bravo!
Thank You for doing so. It illustrates a point nicely I think. The invitation is in the response you worked to create.
This is kind of profound. If you hadn’t given the key, I couldn’t have come in.
I did ponder doing that but figured I would really be an outsider permanently then…but offering a door and seeing who choose to come through and engage seemed to me the more balanced option.
This is soo profound!
You are completely right, of course… and extremely clever. But you are still a >.’!+ “!?:!>$ for making me spend so much time to read this.
Oh how I laughed and still am…wonderful response and everything the experiment was set up to achieve is here in your answer. Thank You so much.
😀
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I am new here and totally confused…in an interesting way.
Welcome aboard Rasz. You’re probably not alone in that. My muse was in a cheeky mood this morning.
Oh, lord. You clever @#$*!
I’ll be back.
Clever uzda. Hmmmm 😉
Hey, I calls em as I sees %\.
😉
Have deciphered. And decided you are indeed a clever “../
don’t you mean “%%/
err I can’t add winky or question mark now to that comment or punctuation of any kind
mebbe not so clever after all
At my house we say “boop.” 😉 Like Betty Boop. And yes, I noticed that when writing in your language. Cannot punctuate. Still a clever take on the prompt.
boop it is then 😉
The reminded me of an abstract art project I was assigned in 3D design class. My finished work also hinged on the idea of who is invited to participate (or see in my case). Cleverly executed though now I have a feeling of longing for the old activity books I loved as a child, chock full of puzzles like this.
Thanks Rommy. This has been an interesting journey. All are invited but not all will come. Who is the outsider?
Sorry – half way through, it is just too tedious trying to decipher it bit by bit; I’m abandoning the attempt. If I thought it might be going to say something new and startling…. Of course, the idea itself is that, and congratulations on being innovative, but I am an impatient reader! 😦
No worries Rosemary. Every response is a worthwhile one. Thanks for giving it a go.
ha! too much work for my tired eyes. another day perhaps ~
it’ll be there. 😉